Friday, July 3, 2015

Making a Splash: DC Comics 40 Years Ago This Month, July 1975

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! In a post last month, Ol' Groove rapped about how hard it was to find comics when my family moved from Harlan to Knox County. Well, by July, the situation was well in hand. There was one store in town (hooray) and three in the next town over (Corbin) that sold comics! Yes! I had to do some walking, but t'was well worth it! I was able to get my greasy paws on each and every mag I wanted, as long as I timed things right! So while July 1975 was hot outside, it was cool inside with a pile of DC mags like these...

Fantastic post - reminds me why I spent a bit of time looking for DCs even though their distribution in the UK was terrible compared to Marvel's.

Nice Nestor Redondo pages, particularly the Swamp Thing. And that Tarzan is really striking, definitely something to track down .... Had to look that one up and its by Frank Reyes, a name that doesn't ring any bells with me (other than seeing it on another page here). Google doesn't seem to turn up much, so I'd really appreciate if anyone out there could give me any pointers....

The other thing that stands out here is Kamandi. Those issues with Pyra just before Kirby left were great. Thanks Groove

All of that output was in one month? That’s amazing. The list didn't even include a ton of the more famous titles, right? I guess I never fully appreciated how much content was coming out of DC. Great post.

Great to see Kubert and all the fine Filipino artists here. Ditko and Wood were already waning talents, but it was still nice to see their work. The real surprise was seeing Neal Adams back at HOUSE OF MYSTERY after years of absence, albeit only in inking Paul Kirchner's pencils. It's a shame the quality of printing was sliding down the tubes at that time, but the medium survived it, and today's technology makes them look terrific---which is why a lot of these ought to see reprint now!

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As for the rest of ya, the purpose of this blog is to (re)introduce you to the great comics of the 1970s. If you like what you see, do what I do--go to a comics shop, bookstore, e-Bay or whatever and BUY YOUR OWN!